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  • Good Friday Draw In The Darkness And The Gloom

    mack

    By mack

    An otherwise dreary match both weather and football wise was lit up by two pieces of individual brilliance, with Yojiro Takahagi's stunning free kick & Melbourne City winger Harry Novillo's solo effort seeing the two bottom half teams share the points.

     

    Nikita Rukavytsya took advantage of a poor pass from Novillo to run at goal, only to be cut down by the big haired City central defender Kew Jaliens. The referee showed him a well deserved yellow card, and there was a line of enquiry that suggested there should have been a harsher punishment. As it stood, City were punished in a different fashion, as Takahagi took a two step run-up before curling a delightful shot into the top corner.

     

    Novillo struck back with 5 minutes to play in the first half. He took possession on halfway, he cut inside with far too much pace for right fullback Sam Gallaway. A neat run across the path of the winger by Jack Clisby saw Mateo Poljak fail to defend against the man with the ball, and before Takahagi or Aspro could close him down he unleashed a drive of such venom and swerve that it deceived Dean Bouzanis and left the keeper clutching at thin air.

     

    Tomi Juric should have put the Wanderers back in front before half-time, as Tando Velaphi made one of his trademark errors to hand the national team striker an open goal, only for Juric to somehow manage to miss wide right.

     

    The second half was a dank affair to match the inclement weather, neither side being able to penetrate, and after 3 minutes of injury time the referee mercifully brought the match to a close. The draw, combined with Brisbane's 6-1 trashing of the Central Coast Mariners, saw the faint glimmer of hope for a finals spot should Perth Glory get stripped of their points for an alleged salary cap breach wiped out almost as soon as it had begun.

     

    The Wanderers next match is against FC Seoul in the Asian Champions League on Tuesday the 7th of April at Parramatta Stadium.

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    Neverbloom

    I give my lungs for this team, moments like Takahagi make it worth it in an otherwise flat night.

     

    Not sure why the Victory chant happened but if that's what the Capo wants then that's what he gets.

     

    Otherwise that game was ours, they came back a bit in the second half but we were the better side..

     

    and we got more than Roar did last night lol

    i was confused about the victory chant but its a great chant so fun to hear every so often

    I was directly behind Novillo when he hit it, my god I've never seen a ball move like that so fiercely. The thing almost turned 90 degrees he hit it so hard. Bouzanis didn't even have a hope of even getting a finger to it. Another game that we've been dudded by an unbelievable strike.

     

    I'd love to see Tomi and Bulut play together. Tomi regularly wins the arial contest off a goal kick, having Bulut running off that would be a pretty potent combination I reckon.

     

    To the people who were helping out the injured possum in the hospital car park, good on you. Poor little fella wasn't having a good time at all haha don't think he could handle us not winning again...

    Bouzanis had a great match imo, he was not at all at fault for the goal and made quite a few good saves

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    hawks2767

    La Banda you have to give balls back if they come over the fence lol

     

     

    Also my brother got hit in the face by a near full cup of beer after the goal, if you're going to do the beer shower thing throw the damn thing up not across.

     

    He's not mad, I am a little bit but I know it wasn't intentional at the end of the day.

     

    Up not across.

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    mack

    La Banda you have to give balls back if they come over the fence lol

     

     

    Also my brother got hit in the face by a near full cup of beer after the goal, if you're going to do the beer shower thing throw the damn thing up not across.

     

    He's not mad, I am a little bit but I know it wasn't intentional at the end of the day.

     

    Up not across.

    Up not forward, forward not backward, backward not upwards, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.

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    Hughesy

     

     

    La Banda you have to give balls back if they come over the fence lol

     

     

    Also my brother got hit in the face by a near full cup of beer after the goal, if you're going to do the beer shower thing throw the damn thing up not across.

     

    He's not mad, I am a little bit but I know it wasn't intentional at the end of the day.

     

    Up not across.

    Up not forward, forward not backward, backward not upwards, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.
    Or better still: down. Down your ******* throat and stop throwing it everywhere.
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    dmixtaaa

     

    La Banda you have to give balls back if they come over the fence lol

     

     

    Also my brother got hit in the face by a near full cup of beer after the goal, if you're going to do the beer shower thing throw the damn thing up not across.

     

    He's not mad, I am a little bit but I know it wasn't intentional at the end of the day.

     

    Up not across.

    Up not forward, forward not backward, backward not upwards, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.

     

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    Mack has lost the plot.... :ninja:

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    mack

     

     

    La Banda you have to give balls back if they come over the fence lol

     

     

    Also my brother got hit in the face by a near full cup of beer after the goal, if you're going to do the beer shower thing throw the damn thing up not across.

     

    He's not mad, I am a little bit but I know it wasn't intentional at the end of the day.

     

    Up not across.

    Up not forward, forward not backward, backward not upwards, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.

     

    2f8HL2F.gif

     

    Mack has lost the plot.... :ninja:

     

    I am Mack, as overlord, all will kneel trembling before me and obey my brutal commands.

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    Wanderer747

    If someone offered a draw before the match, I would have taken it

     

    - As everyone else said, so many genuine chances we missed. 

    - A lot more flow to our game considering the conditions

    - Romeo is a star.........does so much, always looks for chances. Love him.

    - Bridge..............sigh. 

    - The Victory chant was stupid and in the end, that is when City scored. Ironic. 

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    marron

    La Banda you have to give balls back if they come over the fence lol

     

     

     

    :lol:

     

    That ball killed one of my beers :(

     

     

     

     

    The victory chant - can only assume it was meant as a diss to heart. Like "we've not even bothered to have one for you" sort of thing.

     

    To me, that's best said by not having one at all. I love if when eesfc sing about us at other games. Shows their insecurity.

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    smp
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    It says something about the quality of the game that my highlight of the night was ending up on the big screen because the winners of the Maccas lounge competition were running late and uncontactable. A club official randomly picked us out while we were buying merch and asked if we could pretend to be them because they needed someone there for the interview with Ronald McDonald.

     

    The best bit was when Wilko (the ground announcer we all love to hate) asked in the interview "So what did you have to do to win these seats" my son said "Weeeelllll, the people that -actually- won the seats aren't here sooooo…" :rofl:

     

    Pro tip guys: if you want an 8 year old to lie for you on camera, you have to at least give him a cover story first, or he's just going to tell the truth. :nono:

     

    As soon as the cross finished, the competition winners turned up so they put us up in one of the corporate suites to thank us for our time. Corporate suites aren't that flash actually. Had to put up with listening to people big note themselves when they should have been watching the game. I was driving so I couldn't even fill up on free booze :( The only upside was that our normal seats aren't under cover so at least we stayed dry.

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    WhoDoWeSingFor

    Don't know about dreary, I thought the first half was the best half of football I've seen at Parra in months.

     

    Two cracking goals, we moved the ball well, pressed in defence and we had a proper football atmosphere.

     

    Had to be dedicated to front up after watching it rain all day for what was effectively a meaningless match.

     

    But 9,000 didn't think twice.

     

    Agree with Tranquilo, building for ACL and next season nicely.

     

    Hope the lads can freshen up for Tuesday after that heavy pitch.

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    DamnedUnited

    "Rukavytsya took advantage of a poor pass from Novillo to run at goal, only to be cut down by the big haired City central defender Kew Jaliens" When Mack writes 'big haired' etc is that bordering on racist or just a bad haired day comment.

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    marron

    "Rukavytsya took advantage of a poor pass from Novillo to run at goal, only to be cut down by the big haired City central defender Kew Jaliens" When Mack writes 'big haired' etc is that bordering on racist or just a bad haired day comment.

    In one eyed abuse mode I was busy telling the ref to send him off before jamcal noted that as it was ruka jaliens had not denied him a goal scoring opportunity.

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    mack

    "Rukavytsya took advantage of a poor pass from Novillo to run at goal, only to be cut down by the big haired City central defender Kew Jaliens" When Mack writes 'big haired' etc is that bordering on racist or just a bad haired day comment.

     

    He's got big hair. What does that have to do with race?

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    nmh94

    What was it with the victory chant? The was a **** load of 'huh' from the east terrace when that came on.

     

    Really made the city guys quake in their boots by bagging out their rival

    Yeah it seemed kind of stupid to me, even more so when they scored while we were chanting it.

     

    I thought we were good in the first half, 1-1 was not a fair half time reflection, but it was a cracking strike for their goal. Second half was a bit more disjointed but there were some positive signs for Tuesday. Every time Romeo gets the ball I fill with excitement, you just feel something is going to happen, and I feel Yojiro will end up being a very good signing for us. I'm expecting big things from him next year.

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    Taurus

    "Rukavytsya took advantage of a poor pass from Novillo to run at goal, only to be cut down by the big haired City central defender Kew Jaliens" When Mack writes 'big haired' etc is that bordering on racist or just a bad haired day comment.

     

    Kew Jaliens does look remarkably similar to a stuffed toy I had as a child. 

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    mack

     

    "Rukavytsya took advantage of a poor pass from Novillo to run at goal, only to be cut down by the big haired City central defender Kew Jaliens" When Mack writes 'big haired' etc is that bordering on racist or just a bad haired day comment.

     

    Kew Jaliens does look remarkably similar to a stuffed toy I had as a child. 

     

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    beatsurrender

    I was directly behind Novillo when he hit it, my god I've never seen a ball move like that so fiercely. The thing almost turned 90 degrees he hit it so hard. Bouzanis didn't even have a hope of even getting a finger to it. Another game that we've been dudded by an unbelievable strike.

    I'd love to see Tomi and Bulut play together. Tomi regularly wins the arial contest off a goal kick, having Bulut running off that would be a pretty potent combination I reckon.

    To the people who were helping out the injured possum in the hospital car park, good on you. Poor little fella wasn't having a good time at all haha don't think he could handle us not winning again...

    It would be interesting to see Tomi and bulut together but I don't see it happening unless we are chasing a game. Pops likes five in mid and a lone striker.

    Takahagi was excellent and will have a great season next year. Tanaka solid too and we have a young star in Aspro. Very optimistic for next season. Plus those 4k additional seats!!

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    dmixtaaa

     

    "Rukavytsya took advantage of a poor pass from Novillo to run at goal, only to be cut down by the big haired City central defender Kew Jaliens" When Mack writes 'big haired' etc is that bordering on racist or just a bad haired day comment.

     

    Kew Jaliens does look remarkably similar to a stuffed toy I had as a child.

     

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